Authors
Milind Dawande, H Neil Geismar, Nicholas G Hall, Chelliah Sriskandarajah
Publication date
2006/6
Journal
Production and Operations Management
Volume
15
Issue
2
Pages
243-261
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Description
We study conflict and cooperation issues arising in a supply chain where a manufacturer makes products which are shipped to customers by a distributor. The manufacturer and the distributor each has an ideal schedule, determined by cost and capacity considerations. However, these two schedules are in general not well coordinated, which leads to poor overall performance. In this context, we study two practical problems. In both problems, the manufacturer focuses on minimizing unproductive time. The distributor minimizes customer cost measures in the first problem and minimizes inventory holding cost in the second problem. We first evaluate each party's conflict, which is the relative increase in cost that results from using the other party's optimal schedule. Since this conflict is often significant, we consider several practical scenarios about the level of cooperation between the manufacturer and the distributor …
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M Dawande, HN Geismar, NG Hall, C Sriskandarajah - Production and Operations Management, 2006